How to make origami out of paper: the scheme and step by step instructions for children and novice craftsmen

Art of folding a sheet of paper in the form of various figures originated in Japan in ancient times and developed at temples and monasteries. After many years, origami technique appeared all over the world.

Now it is used not only in religious ceremonies, as it happened in Japan, but also create different handicrafts based on this technique. Master it is not difficult, but you need to gain experience to easily turn a piece of paper into a work of art.

Types of origami

Fold a piece of paper can be several ways, so there are several types of origami technique:

• Simple is based on folding the paper many times to get a three-dimensional figure.
• Modular is based on the folding of simple elements and their assembly by inserting them into each other without using glue.

Modern is based on the use of several techniques, namely:

1. Kirigami is the cutting out of figures with scissors.
2. Kusudami are designs that are created with threads and glue.
3. Aerogami - is folding a figure in several ways.
4. Wet origami - it is moistening the paper to give it a clear shape.

The necessary tools and materials for work:

• Scissors.
• Glue PVA.
• Sheets of white and colored office paper. Normal school paper for crafts is not suitable for work.
• Ruler.
• A pencil.
• A knife for stationery.

Once there are skills in the technique can be used in the work of foil, glossy paper and bank bills.

Schemes of origami crafts of paper

To learn to collect in the technique of origami various models and shapes, you need to look at a lot of photos or videos on the internet, where masters show how to fold a sheet of paper. But until you do not take the paper in hand, then learn how difficult.

When a sheet of paper will be in your hands, you can see and understand what angle to bend and what should be the fold, to make a particular shape. We in this article will try to describe the main principles in carrying out origami technique for examples of simple crafts.

Easy origami crafts

In the art of origami can make easy and difficult crafts. It all depends on how to fold a square sheet. In the hands of the master it acquires new shapes and get great crafts. They can be painted in their own way or use colored paper.

Fish

• You need a square sheet of paper.
• Fold it diagonally.
• One corner of the resulting triangle, bring it to the top and bend.
• The end of the resulting triangle, again inflect up.
• Bottom corner of the triangle bend up to the fold.
• Bend the top part.
• Should get a square, and at one edge of the figure in the form of the tail of a fish.
• The finished product is colored with markers or paints.

You can make a whole flock of fish and hang them on wooden slats, fastened together by strings.

Such a craft can be attached to a wall or light fixture.

Duckling .

• Fold a square sheet of diagonally.
• Unfold it and the corners of the sheet bend to the resulting fold.
• Again we fold in half and the bottom corner of the bend to the top.
• Need two opposite sides to bend so as to form two wings of the bird.
• Bend the top triangle and get a beak.

Duck is ready and can be painted.

The fox .

• Orange square sheet bend horizontally.
• Fold again in the center.
• The top layer of paper and open the top corners to the bottom.
• Bend paw for chanterelles with the right side to the left side.
• The corners of the middle layer bend so as to form a muzzle fox.

Handicraft simple and it can handle a child. The task of adults - to show him the order of folds of paper.

Crab .

• Take a square sheet of red paper.
• Fold the sheet of two diagonal lines to find the center of the sheet. The lines should be bent upward.
• Unfold the sheet and fold it at opposite corners on both sides. Lines of folds concave down.
• Fold it into a double triangle. The base should be at the top.
• From the upper triangle to make legs crab, bending the edges at a slight angle on both sides.
• Turn the sheet and make a second pair of legs, bending the corner of the triangle and bending the corners at an angle.
• Turn the crab and glue store eyes or cut out of white paper with black pupils on top of the body.

Cat

• Cut out two isosceles triangles from two colors of paper.
• Glue them together. Glue should not shrink the paper.
• Fold the top corners down.
• Bottom - bend upward.
• Draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the cat on the paper.

If you want to make a dog, it is made just like a cat, but the bottom corners are bent up.

Pigeon .

• Take a one-sided colored paper, where one side will be white and the other pink or blue.
• Cut out a square from it.
• Fold the sheet in half.
• Unfold the sheet, and fold the corners on both sides into the center, as in the manufacture of airplanes.
• Fold in half again along the original fold line. Should get a rectangle with two right angles.
• From the center of the corner opposite the sharp corner to make a parallel cut side not all the way through.
• The upper part of the paper to lift and bend. Do the same with the lower part.
• Angle of bend, as on the airplane, bend upwards and fold so as to form a beak. Draw the eye.

Pigeon with two wings and a tail ready.

Tulip .

• Take three squares of red paper.
• One square add up on one diagonal, and then on the second. All corners should be separated by strips of folds.
• Square of the sum of the triangle.
• Fold the bottom corners up.
• Turn to the other side and do the same steps. Should get a diamond.
• Fold the corners, so that again there was a diamond, but smaller in size.
• The sides of the roll inward and lay one on top of the other.
• Corners of the put into each other.
• At the bottom hole of the diamond should blow and the tulip will take shape.
• Petals unbend down.
• On wooden sticks to roll corrugated green paper. Cut out the leaves and glue them to the stick.
• Insert the finished stem at the bottom of the bud.

These tulips can make a lot and decorate their window in a room or school, put in a vase, which can also be done from origami paper.

Christmas tree .

• Take a square of green paper.
• Fold the sheet on two diagonals and turn it.
• Fold the center of the two sides of the sheet from one corner.
• Also fold the other side and again fold the corner of each side in the center.
• Fold the workpiece so that the top and bottom corners aligned and the fold was in the center.
• One corner lift up and bend to form a fold.
• Turn the top piece to you.
• Angle of the bottom lift up to the fold and bend.
• Turn this side of the details on the reverse side. We have a Christmas tree, standing on a trunk.

Now you can decorate it with sequins, planting them on the glue.

Interesting crafts of origami paper

After the learning of origami technique on easy crafts can move on to complex designs. They are made from parts that are folded into a triangle, and then these triangles are inserted into each other, while giving a specific shape to the product.

A complex flower

• We need to take multi-colored double-sided sheets of paper in the shape of squares.
• Cardboard cut out a circle for the base of the flower where the petals will be glued.
• We make the squares of colored paper petals, curling loops and gluing the tip of the paper, so it does not unravel.
• Glue the circular petals of the bottom layer tightly together to the base.
• The second layer do the same, and it can be a different color. Petal in the form of a culet is placed between the two petals of the bottom row.
• By this method we add a flower to the very top row, where there will be the least number of petals.

Such a flower can also be made from different colored napkins, but in this case, do not use glue. Mullet of napkins well holds shape.

Animals of multiple origami

The triangular modules of different colors can be used to create different animals. They look very beautiful and unusual. But to make them, you need to have skills in the work of assembling the modules. Details of the animal are made separately and then assembled into a whole.

So you can make an elephant and a peacock, a swan and an owl, a penguin and birds. Such crafts are difficult for a child to make on their own, because you need to have an idea of what the animal looks like and create it in the likeness.

With the help of adults child can cope with this task. How to make animals from multiple origami can be seen in the video, which presents origami masters on the Internet.

Ball

• We will need 60 sheets of square colored double-sided paper. Of it need to collect 60 modules.
• Fold the sheet diagonally.
• Triangle corners at the base of the fold to a right angle.
• Left edge of the bend twice inside module. Right edge exactly the same bend, but outward.
• Make a cone of the module and connect the bent edges.
• Thus collect five modules and glue them into a flower in a circle, gluing the petals to each other.
• Of all the sheets of paper to make such flowers and glue them together to form a ball.
• Glue the ball with string and beads.

Umbrella .

• Make triangle-shaped modules from colored double-sided paper.
• Cut out a circle of cardboard. Glued to it will be the first top layer of modules.
• All other modules of different colors will be inserted between the two modules in the middle, so that the lower part included the tips of the top two. For strength of construction, you can glue the modules.
• From the wire to make handle like an umbrella with a bend at the bottom. Cover it with paper in several layers of volume.
• Insert the handle in the center of the cardboard circle.

Vase

This handicraft is made identical to a ball or umbrella, but it is going to the bottom row, which is attached to a cardboard circle or square. It depends on the chosen shape of the vase.

From the triangular multi-colored modules is collected vase. You can use glue to make the modules hold stronger.

On the Internet there are many models of vases in different colors and shapes. Those who have already mastered the technique of folding modules and knows how they are attached to the structure can easily assemble a vase.

Bottle .

• Take a sheet of square shape.
• Make a mark for the folds. It is not necessary to bend the sheet in half, but to bend it so that the top is one-eighth of the half, and the bottom two parts of the half. That is, if our square sheet has a side of 20 cm, then bend two cm from the bottom and eight cm from the top. There should be no overlap. And the middle part will be ten centimeters.
• Unfold 8 cm and fold in half again. There should be four centimeters each.
• The bottom two cm divide into 8 equal parts and draws strips with a pencil. This will be the bottom of the bottle. We need to make the folds along the drawn strips and from the top corner to half of the bottom side of the resulting segment. On the right side of the corner we cut at the same slope as we do the folds. Assemble the bending lines so that you get the bottom of the bottle.
• Make a bottle neck of the 8 cm part. It should be divided into 32 strips and bend along these lines. But when we will spiralize the neck, superimposing one strip on another, only two thirds of this 8 cm part will be involved. One third will be the shoulders of the bottle.
• To spiral bends are not straightened, on the neck it is necessary to glue a strip and fix the spiral.

The bottle can be decorated if it is made of monochrome paper. On it you can glue labels created with your own hands.

A cactus in a pot

Green, yellow, red, blue paper square shape fold in the form of modular triangles:

• In the first row we put 18 modules with the short side forward. Modules for the pot we use blue and red.
• In the second and third rows stack 18 modules long side out.
• From fourth to seventh rows alternate colors.
• In the eighth row 30 modules of one color are inserted, short side facing forward.
• Assemble so up to the tenth row.
• With the eleventh row we make a circle of 8 modules and connect very tightly to each other.

Cactus inserted into a pot.

Important: To make the handicrafts turned out neat and beautiful, you need to learn the small forms. Then move on to more complex products.

Origami - it's an interesting way to create crafts from an accessible material. Occupation can be a pleasant time with the family together with children.

Photo ideas of origami crafts